zoran_spasojevic3

Thanks for your replies. I always cary an extra battery, that is no problem, but in very cold weather batteries do not perform well and hence electronic shutters. It would be great if I can still get 1/90

speed.

Zoran

Is there any difference between F and FE lenses in internal coating or lens

design in order to reduce flair and improve sharpness and optical quality? I

shoot mainly I manual mode so not having auto exposure makes little difference

to me. F lenses seem to be a lot less expensive then FE lenses on the used lens

market and if they perform optically as well as the FE lenses then it makes

every sense to me to get F lenses. I would be grateful to anyone with suggestions.

Thanks,

Zoran

I am trying to decide whether to get a Rollei 6003, 6008 or a Hasselblad 203FE.

I was wondering if shutter on 203 FE can work (perhaps in manual mode) with

F or FE lenses without a battery. I travel a lot and I would like to know if I

can still use the camera with a hand-held light meter if the battery fails and

no replacement is in sight. A similar question was asked for other lenses but

not for these two types. I would be grateful to anyone who can provide an answer.

Thanks,

Zoran

It appears that Kodak's management has done a remarkably poor job promoting Kodak's products. I remember a Kodak's manager saying at one trade show where he was trying to promote a JPEG2000 based software product, "In order to obtain an image of higher resolution you just send down a few more wavelets". Anyone who understands wavelet based compression can conclude that this person has not done hos homework and there he was speaking in public and embarrassing himself and the entire team that worked on that product. My feeling is that Kodak has done eaqualy poor job in promoting its films. I do not remember when I last saw an ad about Kodachrome. Kodachrome is still the most archival color film ever made and many still consider it the best film ever. As a result, there are only 2 Kodachrome films today only in 35mm format. And who knows how much longer they will last.

With the news that Tech Pan will be gone soon, I can only say that Kodak really does not care. With a specially formulated Phenodone based developer I was able to get full gray scale and sharpness better than anything else I have ever seen. It is my standard landscape and portrait film. Its red sensitivity gives a unique look to portraits and with a red filter, landscape photographs have an incredibly clean and crystalline look to them. With a cyan filter it becomes a regular panchromatic film but with incredible sharpness and practically no grain. I believe that there is still a profitable niche market for Tech Pan. It appears that Kodak's managers are thinking big and niche markets are of no interest to them. With the news of its discontinuation, I bought a large supply of it. Unfortunately, even the largest supply can last so long. My only hope is that Kodak reconsiders its decision and continues to make Tech Pan in small amounts to satisfy the demand that I believe will exist for a long time to come. Tech Pan is so unique that digital technology has to go through a revolution to produce a device that will be able to capture images comparable to what Tech Pan can do. I heard a rumor today that HP might buy Kodak. It seems that this is not only the end of Tech Pan but the beginning of the end of Kodak.

regards to all in this group,

Zoran (www.timeprint.com)